Smoke her out? What the hell.........I cruise around and make offers on a
regular basis and usually I advise the owner to keep it and fix it up, if
they can. If they cannot, I tell them the worst thing they can do is let it
sit around, in which case I make an offer or I refer them to someone. Bottom
line is that there are a lot of Vanagon owners out there that have NO idea
what they have and, before I deal with them, I make sure they know how they
stand. I would never smoke them out. That's just not how I was brought up,
not how my mom would expect her son to be, nor does that have ANYTHING to do
with what this community is about!!!!!

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote:

> Where?
>
>
> On 3/29/08 12:39 PM, "John Runberg" <jrunberg@MAC.COM> wrote:
>
> > Got a call from a lady w/ an '87 Westy basically wanting to unload
> > it. Could use list advice on value since condition isn't perfect, and
> > it's got a trannie prob that I've never faced before.
> >
> > Problem:
> > Van wouldn't go into reverse, but all other gears. then no first, now
> > nothing. Sound like linkage, but I've never had problems with that.
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Condition:
> > 87 full westy, nice interior. Rust in the seams and dime sized hole
> > on the front. Haven't seen it in person yet so don't know much more.
> > As I said, she sounds like she just wants to unload and I'm not
> > motivated to offer more than salvage value considering the rust.
> >
> > For me, that's maybe in the range of $1500 +/-. I'm sure she could do
> > better on eb*y, but what say you?
> >
> > john
>

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Gracias,
Miguel